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MACHINE FOR WINDING PAPER AND OTHER FABRICS.

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' Application filed Jln m, isso. Serial Nmoam. (No modeL) To all 1071,0172, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN WALDaoN, a oiti zen of the United States, residing in New Brunswick, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement-in Machines for \Vinding Paper and other Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for winding=into rolls or reels paper, cloth, or other textile fabric or material.

Heretofore in the operation of'winding material 'such as the above difficulty has been eX-.

perienced in keepingthe-material smooth and true as it is wound, and in preventing the formation of wrinkles, folds, and other irregularities which affect the market value of the finished and wound product, and in many instances, especially in those ofdecorated wallpapers, teud to destroy the fabric itself, be-

cause, in the case ofgrounded or coated papers,

in which the color or paint is applied to only reeling or winding of fabrics into compact,

smooth, and even rolls, which are free from I folds andwrinkles. Heretofore this result which I obtain has been obtained by mounting the winding-roll upon which the fabric is wound in a frame to which an oscillatory motion has been given in order to alternately lift and lower the ends of said winding-roll or imroll upon which it rests and by which it is driven, all as fully set forth in United States Letters Patent No.'-335,870, granted February 9, 1886, to Heinrich Vinterwerber.

- A machine embodying my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings and described in this specification, the particular subject-matter claimed as novel being hereinafter definitely specified.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevational view of the machine embodying my invention.

part to it a wabbling motion upon the'driving- Fig. 2 is a front elevation of said machine. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of a modified'form of driving-roll, and Fig. 4 a fragmentary front elevational detail of one of the guideways for one ofthe carrying-arms of the winding-roll. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. In thedrawings, A A are the side frames of the machine, which are conveniently mounted ,upon a bed-plate, A*, if desired, are tied together by suitable tie-bars, and which together constitutethe frame-work of the machine. The fabric B, assumed to be wall-paper,:is led into the machine, preferably over fixed stretcher-harsh, housed in a supplemental' frame-work, a surmounted upon the side frames, and is then conducted around and be tween va series of tensionregulating rolls Got any usual character, housed in boxings 0, applied to theside frames. From beneath the last of thetension-regulating rolls the paper. is led over a guide-roll, D, housed in parallel ism with the tension-rolls inboxings d in the framework, and from the guideroll the paper is led over the driving-roll F, housed in parallelism with the guideroll in boxings e, and attached to the winding-roll E, the gudgeons f of which areentered in adjustable bear- 8o .ings f respectively, mounted upon two carrying-arms, G, independently pivoted at their inner ends at g tothe frame work, traveling in ways 9", supported from the frame, and at their outer ends providedwith counter-weights 8 5 H, conveniently applied in any desired series upon-weight-hangers g pivotally connected with said carryingarms.

One of the gudgeons of the driving-roll is prolonged beyond its boxing and provided with driving-pulleys P or equivalent devices, through which rotation is imparted .to said driving-roll.

The frame-work as an entirety,its stretcherbars, tension-regulating rolls, guide-roll, and 5 winding-roll proper, that is apart from its mounting, are all of a general character common in these machines. The driving-roll, however, is of a special construction, and in its construction and its applicationin the machine, in combination with the winding-roll and incidentally with the other rolls mentioned, my invention resides, This drivingroll F is, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, provided with a series of alternatelydisposed vanishing grooves f, being tapering gutters, notches, corrugations, indentations, or channels formed longitudinally upon the surface of the roll in alternated or staggered disposition and which have their greatest depth upon the edge of the roll, and taper or gradually lessen to a point near or beyondthe center,where they vanish. Their office is, in the rotation of the drivingro11,to present such inclined surfaces as to casion a tilting, rocking, or rise and fall ofthe alternate ends, or a wabbli-ng, so to speak, of

upon the surface of the driving-roll.

Instead of employing grooves or gutters,the same result can be obtained by providing tapering ridgesf,Fig. 3,uponthe surface of the roll.

Such being a description of the construction of a machine conveniently embodying my invention, its operation will, from such description, be sufficiently understood. Suffice it to repeat,that the paper or other fabric to be wound being introduced under proper tension about the tension-regulating rolls and guideroll, and being connected with the. windingroll, is, when the driving roll is rotated, smoothly and evenly wound upon the winding-roll, the vanishing grooves serving to impart tosaid winding-roll an oscillatory movement, which the independentlyacting carryingarms permit, and which imparts to the wound fabric a smoothness otherwise difficult to obtain. The joggling motion has also the tendency to throw the edges of the fabric a little out of line, and thereby prevent the thickening of the wound roll at its ends to an extent greater than its thickness at the middle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1., The combination of a drivingroll provided with vanishing grooves, a winding-roll upon which fabric is wound, surmounted upon said driving-roll and adapted to be rotated by it, and means forrotating said driving-roll, substantially as set .forth.

2. The combination of a drivingroll provided with vanishing grooves, a winding-roll upon which the fabric is wound, surmounted upon said driving-roll and adapted to be rotated by it, means for rotating said drivingroll, and tension-regulating rolls, substantially as set forth. the winding-roll 'E and its wound fabric B 3. The combination, in a paper-winding machine, of tension-regulating rolls, a drivingroll having vanishing grooves, a winding-roll upon which material is wound, and which is supported upon and rotated by said drivingroll, and independently-moving bearings for said winding-roll, substantially as set forth.

4. In a paper-winding machine, the coxnbination of the driving-roll provided with vanishing grooves, a winding-roll upon which the fabric is wound, surmounted upon and driven by said driving-roll, boxings for said windingroll, and carrying-arms upon which said boxings are mounted, substantially as set forth. 5. In a paper-winding machine, the combination of the driving-roll provided with vanishing' grooves, a winding-roll upon which fabric is wound, surmount-ed upon and driven by said driving-roll, boXings for said windingroll, carrying-arms upon which said boxings are mounted, and tension-regulating rolls, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereu nto signed my name this 19th day of July, A. D. 1886.

J N O. WALDRON.

Inpresence of J. BONSALL TAYLOR, F. N. DIXON. 

